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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-01-29 14:25:21 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-29 18:04:45 -0800
commit1404f06565ee89e0ce04d4a5859c00b0e3a0dc8d (patch)
treee2f294ed420461e0032e03143f06634b883dc06e /kernel/cgroup.c
parent945048ca36173315afa2f0c53bed21ba01a588c1 (diff)
downloadlinux-1404f06565ee89e0ce04d4a5859c00b0e3a0dc8d.tar.gz
cgroups: fix lock inconsistency in cgroup_clone()
I fixed a bug in cgroup_clone() in Linus' tree in commit 7b574b7
("cgroups: fix a race between cgroup_clone and umount") without noticing
there was a cleanup patch in -mm tree that should be rebased (now commit
104cbd5, "cgroups: use task_lock() for access tsk->cgroups safe in
cgroup_clone()"), thus resulted in lock inconsistency.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 2ae7cb47dbfa..0066092de19a 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2993,20 +2993,21 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
 		mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 		return 0;
 	}
-	task_lock(tsk);
-	cg = tsk->cgroups;
-	parent = task_cgroup(tsk, subsys->subsys_id);
 
 	/* Pin the hierarchy */
-	if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&parent->root->sb->s_active)) {
+	if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&root->sb->s_active)) {
 		/* We race with the final deactivate_super() */
 		mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
 	/* Keep the cgroup alive */
+	task_lock(tsk);
+	parent = task_cgroup(tsk, subsys->subsys_id);
+	cg = tsk->cgroups;
 	get_css_set(cg);
 	task_unlock(tsk);
+
 	mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 
 	/* Now do the VFS work to create a cgroup */
@@ -3045,7 +3046,7 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
 		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 		put_css_set(cg);
 
-		deactivate_super(parent->root->sb);
+		deactivate_super(root->sb);
 		/* The cgroup is still accessible in the VFS, but
 		 * we're not going to try to rmdir() it at this
 		 * point. */
@@ -3071,7 +3072,7 @@ int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
 	mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
 	put_css_set(cg);
 	mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
-	deactivate_super(parent->root->sb);
+	deactivate_super(root->sb);
 	return ret;
 }